GOD

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1. God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood, but he will perform each word.—AESCHYLUS, Prometheus
   

2. I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.—BALZAC
   

3. Underneath are the everlasting arms.—Bible, Deuteronomy 33:27
   

4. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.—Bible, Psalms 61:2
   

5. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust.—Bible, Psalms 91:2
   

6. Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?—Bible, Malachi 2:10
   

7. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.—Bible, John 3:16

8. God is love.—Bible, 1 John 4:8
   

9. I found an altar with this inscription, To the Unknown God.—Bible, Acts 19:28
   

10. If God be for us, who can be against us?—Bible, Romans 8:31
    

11. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.—Bible, Revelation 21:6
    

12. God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.—HEYWOOD BROUN, Some of My Best Friends Are Yale Men
    

13. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.—ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, Sonnets from the Portuguese
    

14. God's in His heaven:
    All's right with the world.—BROWNING, Pippa Passes
    

15. I recognize
    Power passing mine, immeasurable, God.—BROWNING, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau
    

16. What I call God, And fools call Nature.—BROWNING, The Ring and the Book
    

17. Beneath the shadow of the Great Protection,
    The soul sits, hushed and calm.—J. F. CLARKE, The Shadow
    

18. Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.—COLERIDGE, Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni
    

19. Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah!—MARC CONNELLY, The Green Pastures
    

20. Even bein' Gawd ain't a bed of roses.—MARC CONNELLY, The Green Pastures
    

21. God moves in a mysterious way
    His wonders to perform;
    He plants His footsteps in the sea
    And rides upon the storm.—COWPER, Light Shining out of Darkness
    

22. Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.—CLARENCE DAY, God and My Father
    

23. Job felt the hand of destruction upon him, and he felt the hand of preservation too; and it was all one hand; this is God's method, and His alone, to preserve by destroying.—JOHN DONNE, Sermons
    

24. Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.—MARY BAKER EDDY, Science and Health
    

25. Is not God upon the ocean,
    Just the same as on the land?—J. T. FIELDS, Ballad of the Tempest
    

26. Why the people of Israel, however, adhered to their God all the more devotedly the worse they were treated by Him, that is a question we must leave open.—SIGMUND FREUD, Moses and Monotheism
    

27. Love is God's essence; Power but His attribute; therefore is His love greater than His power.—RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrteo

28. Man proposeth, God disposeth.—GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
    

29. To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hands, a woman with a slop-pail, give Him glory too. He is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, live.—G. M. HOPKINS
    

30. An honest God is the noblest work of man.—ROBERT INGERSOLL, Epigram
    

31. From Thee, great God, we spring, to Thee we tend,—
    Path, motive, guide, original and end.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Motto of the Rambler
    

32. O servant, where dost thou seek Me?
    Lo! I am beside thee.
    I am neither in temple nor in mosque:
    I am neither in Kaaba nor in Kailash:
    Neither am I in rites and ceremonies,
    Nor in Yoga and renunciation.
    
    If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see Me: thou shalt meet Me in a moment of time. Kabir says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath."—KABIR: Songs
    

33. Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!
    Praise Him, all creatures here below!
    Praise Him above, ye heavenly host!
    Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!—BISHOP THOMAS KEN, Morning & Evening Hymn
    

34. The Almighty has His own purposes.—LINCOLN
    

35. Trusting to Him who can go with me, and remains with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.—LINCOLN
    

36. 'Tis heaven alone that is given away;
    'Tis only God may be had for the asking.—LOWELL, The Vision of Sir Launfal
    

37. You've got to git up airly
    Ef you want to take in God.—LOWELL, The Biglow Papers
    

38. A mighty fortress is our God,
    A bulwark never failing;
    Our helper He amid the flood
    Of mortal ills prevailing.—MARTIN LUTHER, Eite Feste Burg
    

39. I live and love in God's peculiar light.—MICHELANGELO
    

40. How vain
    Against the Omnipotent to rise in arms.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

41. Just are the ways of God,
    And justifiable to men;
    Unless there be who think not God at all.—MILTON, Samson Agonistes
    

42. It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.—PLINY THE ELDER, Natural History
    

43. Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively
    Made in His image a mannikin merely to madden it?—POE, The Rationale of Verse
    

44. Father of all ! in every age,
    In every clime adored,
    By saint, by savage, and by sage,
    Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!—POPE, The Universal Prayer
    

45. Beware of him whom God hath marked.—Proverb
    

46. Who hath God, hath all; who hath Him not, hath less than nothing.—Proverb
    

47. God reaches us good things by our own hands.—Proverb
    

48. God giveth His wrath by weight, but His mercy without measure.—Proverb
    

49. God comes at last when we think He is farthest off.—Proverb
    

50. Against God's wrath no castle is thunder proof.—Proverb
    

51. We are in God's hand.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
    

52. God be prais'd, that to believing souls
    Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

53. Had I but served my God with half the zeal
    I served my king, He would not in mine age
    Have left me naked to mine enemies.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
    

54. God and all the attributes of
    God are eternal.—SPINOZA, Ethics
    

55. Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.—TENNYSON, Enoch Arden
    

56. I found Him in the shining of the stars,
    I mark'd Him in the flowering of His fields,
    But in His ways with men I find Him not.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King

57. If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.—JOHN TILLOTSON, Sermon
    

58. But I always think, that the best way to know God is to love many things. Love a friend, a wife, something, whatever you like . . . To give you an example: someone loves Rembrandt, but seriously—that man will know that there is a God, he will surely believe it.—VAN GOGH, Letters
    

59. If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent Him.—VOLTAIRE
    

60. In the faces of men and women I see God.—WALT WHITMAN, Song of Myself
    

61. God is and all is well.—WHITTIER, My Birthday
    

62. God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late,
    They touch the shining hills of day.—WHITTIER